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  1. Plasmids 101: Protein Expression

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    June 7, 2018, 1:17 p.m.
    ...pharmaceuticals, specifically interleukins. Yeast expression systems Yeast are a great expression system to generate...proteins under the control of the galactose inducible promoter (GAL). Other commonly used promoters include...These include mammalian, insect, bacterial, plant, yeast and cell free expression systems. Overall the general...proteins that cannot be produced in  E. coli or yeast cells. The only problem with baculovirus systems...recombinant eukaryotic proteins. Although many species of yeast can be used for protein expression, S. cerevisiae...inducible PHO5 and CUP1 promoters respectively. Yeast cells are grown in well-defined media and can be...large-scale, stable production of proteins. In general yeast expression systems are easier and cheaper to work...
  2. Pathways Over Time Plasmids Engage Students in Functional Genomics Research

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    May 22, 2018, 1:38 p.m.
    ...genes (Figure 1) from the two yeast species into the pYES2.1/V5-His yeast overexpression vector. This plasmid...Addgene.org Find Yeast Expression Vectors Check Out Our Molecular Biology Reference Pages Learn Simple Lab...gene in the reference species. We have been using yeast models (3, 4) to answer questions about the evolution...involved in methionine synthesis (5). The budding yeast, Saccharomyces. cerevisiae, makes a great reference...students test whether or not proteins from the fission yeast, Schizosaccharomyces pombe, have the same function...as their counterparts in S. cerevisiae. The two yeasts are thought to have diverged from a common ancestor...presence of the URA3 gene allows students to select yeast that have been successfully transformed with the...
  3. Five Popular Model Organisms

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    April 11, 2019, 12:39 p.m.
    ...the fly (Pfeiffer et al., 2010). Yeast (Saccharomyces cerevisiae) Yeast, one of the simplest eukaryotic.... Like human cells, yeast DNA is packaged into chromosomes and about 23% of yeast genes have a counterpart...homolog involved in yeast cell division (Pray, 2008). Scientific discoveries in yeast can then can be further...same kind we use in breads and other baked goods! Yeast is cheap, simple and easy to work with as they can...environmental conditions, and double every 2 hours. Yeast are also the first eukaryotic genome to be entirely...sequenced and is very amenable to genetic manipulation. Yeast cells are great model organism not only for the ...counterpart in humans (Liu et al., 2017) . Thus yeast can be used to study the molecular basis of human diseases...
  4. Plasmids 101: Repressible Promoters

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    Dec. 20, 2022, 2:15 p.m.
    ...ethanol consumption phase of yeast culture. Repressible Binary Systems GAL4/UAS In Drosophila or development... One common binary system is the GAL4/UAS system isolated from yeast. In this system, UAS basal promoter...negative repressible promoter is commonly used in yeast. In the first 24 hours of culture, when glucose ... promoter activity (~20% activity of the strong yeast promoter pTEF). As ethanol accumulates, it binds...applications in Saccharomyces cerevisiae.” FEMS Yeast Res. 12(2) (2012): 197-214. PubMed PMID: 22129153... system). The GAL80 repressor can bind to GAL4, partially inhibiting the binding of GAL4 to UAS. One can...domain (DBD) to GAL4 or VP16 activation domain results in chimeric GAL80-repressible and GAL80-insensitive...
  5. Quickest Way to Deposit Plasmids: The Deposit Spreadsheet

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    March 8, 2017, 3:15 p.m.
    ...(nematode), S. cerevisiae (budding yeast), S. pombe (fission yeast), A. thaliana (mustard weed), O. cuniculus...lentiviral, retroviral, AAV, RNAi, luciferase, cre/lox, yeast expression, worm expression, insect expression, ... Addgene home page, if you scroll over “Deposit” in the mega menu at the top of the page, you’ll see two...), M. musculus (mouse), R. norvegicus (rat), G. gallus (chicken), B. taurus (bovine), X. laevis (frog)...Please indicate which growth strain Addgene should propagate your plasmids in: DH5α, NEB Stable, ccdB Survival...Survival, Pir1, or other. Whenever possible, we propagate plasmids in the standard cloning strain DH5α. For...choose the Pir1 strain. If your plasmid cannot be propagated in any of these standard strains, choose other...
  6. Synthesized by Ginkgo Bioworks, Shared by Addgene: SARS-CoV-2 Plasmids for Many Expression Systems

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    May 19, 2020, 1:15 p.m.
    ...expressed in non-mammalian cells. Yeast expression plasmids The yeast expression constructs contain protein... form and we’ll add your citation to the plasmid page on our website. Contributing your results helps ...available plasmids listed on Ginkgo’s collection page.  Bacterial expression plasmids For those constructs...backbones which drive expression using either TEF1 or GAL1 promoters. These vectors are intended for the high... time. Visit our COVID-19 Plasmids and Resources Page! References Fukushi S, Watanabe R, Taguchi F (...
  7. Fluorescent Proteins 101: Photoactivatable Fluorescent Proteins

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    April 25, 2017, 2:30 p.m.
    ...protein‐tracking studies in the budding yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae." Yeast 25.9 (2008): 651-659. PubMed PMID...applications PA-FPs have been developed for use in yeast, as parts of biosenors, and much more. Do you have... tagged to a mitochondrial matrix protein (mito-PAGFP) the Youle Lab was able to visualize and quantify...16980368. PubMed Central PMCID:PMC1635685. 12.Paez-Segala, Maria G., et al. "Fixation-resistant photoactivatable...
  8. What's Your Organism? Expanding Genomic Tools via the NSF EDGE Program

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    May 2, 2019, 12:41 p.m.
    .... These are less well known fungi (they are not yeast or mushrooms) but there are over 1,000 species. ...experimental species. Discovering ways to culture, propagate, transform, store, and share all of these new ...next project. Gymnotiformes and Mormyridae (Jason Gallant) Weakly electric fish are excellent systems to ...cephalopods die after they lay their 1 clutch of eggs? Propagation is thus quite difficult. CRISPR genome editing...
  9. Getting the Most from Your Lentiviral Transduction

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    April 7, 2016, 2:30 p.m.
    ... unlike infections with larger microbes such as yeast, fungi, or bacteria, mycoplasma can be extremely...Seye, A.K., Majdoul, S., Martin, S., Merten, O.W., Galy, A., Fenard, D. ”Influence of mildly acidic pH conditions...All Things Lentivirus with our Lentiviral Guide Pages Deposit Your Lentiviral Vectors ...
  10. With an Eye Towards the Future, We Look Back at the March for Science

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    Oct. 24, 2017, 1:54 p.m.
    ...Vancouver, BC (Canada). She works in a lab that uses yeast cells to study how DNA damage promotes cancer. She... before.  These attacks on science ultimately galvanized scientists to rally in Ottawa to protest the ...research is vital in combating misinformation and propaganda that limits access to full reproductive health...AL, USA 33.5207°N 86.8025°W - Jonathan Aguilar Galileo wrote, “now you would not hide behind these two... large one” (http://oll.libertyfund.org/titles/galilei-dialogues-concerning-two-new-sciences). This is...
  11. 22 Hot Plasmid Technologies from 2014

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    Jan. 6, 2015, 5:21 p.m.
    ...an improved peroxidase reporter, APEX2, through yeast display. APEX2 has been shown to exhibit superior... see our CRISPR/Cas Plasmids: Pooled Libraries webpage or read our blog post,Lentiviral CRISPR Libraries...Chronos & Chrimson Through de novo sequencing of 127 algal transcriptomes, as well as further optimization ...more information, please see Addgene’s information page for the Rinehart phosphoprotein system, which includes...plasmids updates frequently, so visit our CRISPR pages often to find the most recently deposited tools,...GreenGate cloning system, see the detailed plasmid kit page or read our blog post: Quick, Versatile Plant Transgenesis...
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